Dialectical Journal For The Kite Runner

How would you feel if you woke up in a hot creaky metal elevator in the darkness all by yourself, or you arrive in a strange place full of strange boys and aligned with a maze? That is exactly what happened to Thomas in The Maze Runner. After a long ride in a freaky and dark elevator all by himself to a place called the Glade, Thomas found himself surrounded by people he does not know in a place he has never been to. When he got there he realized that he doesn’t know anything about himself or his family except that his first name is Thomas. One of the kids named Chuck helps Thomas through the first day and night. This journal is about the search for Identity love and truth. I previously finished Bad Blood and will right about the search for …show more content…
Alex had been searching for ever and she finally found the perfect evidence and she ascertained that Brendan had his older brother kill Amanda for him and even more. It turns out that he also killed Bev his high school crush who had announced that she was pregnant with his kid. He didn’t kill her until the kid was born and he killed them both. In the end he killed four people that include a lot “ Stabbings, shootings, rapes, homicides… all done by Quillian in some way…” (Fairstein 276). They finally caught Brendan in the water tunnels 500 feet underground after Mike broke his ankle and got stuck under a train track right as a train stopped 3 feet away. Brendan tried shooting at the three while they tried to get Mike free, but Alex remembered how Brendan lost sight in his one eye and she threw fireworks at Brendan making him cringe resulting in him being in the back of a squad car in cuffs. Brendan Quillian is a murderer, a liar, and a cheater for money. The book ended with Mike talking to Alex in the back of an ambulance reminiscing about the trouble Brendan brought to the case. That is how Alex and her group searched for the truth of all the …show more content…
As Thomas goes through his first day in the Glade not knowing anything about himself except for his name “ My name is Thomas… That was the only thing he could remember about his life” (Dashner 1). To everybody else in the glade Thomas was the uncanny boy everybody called him Greenie. He was so confused about where he was and how he got there that he was afraid of everybody and everything, but his confusion turned into curiosity. Thomas starts to have dreams about people and his family but he doesn’t know who they are and how they are related. He tries so hard everyday to figure out who he is and who the people in his dreams are. That is how The Maze Runner uses the search for identity in the